The reaction to the Flyers adding Brett Hextall to the organization via an AHL contract to the Phantoms was as expected.
Many people saw it as just an AHL contract and it wasn’t as if his father, Ron, the Flyers GM, handed him an a job at the NHL level.
Others saw it as another example of the Flyers always keeping things in-house, reclaiming former players of theirs, and nepotism.
You can
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REVERSE VH GROWING IN POPULARITY
Within goaltending circles, there has been a growing buzz over the last couple years about the use of technique called the post lean or reverse VH. It has only started to gain wider popularity in North America — and within the NHL — in recent years but it has been used in Europe for awhile longer, particularly in Sweden.
VH refers to the traditional vertic
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POLLS ARE OPEN: One highlight is through to the finals and this week fans get to vote for the other.
Winner of the ‘Best Save’ section of the bracket, Steve Mason’s stop on Pens’ Beau Bennett will challenge Claude Giroux’s game-winner in the l…
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MONDAY QUICK HITS
* Nicolas Aube-Kubel, the Flyers second-round pick in the 2014 Draft, is off to a roaring start in the QMJHL preseason. One night after notching a hat trick in the Val-d’Or exhibition opener, Aube-Kubel scored a pair of power play goals and added an assist in his club’s 5-2 win over Blainville-Boisbriand. He has five goals and one assist in two games.
* Fifth-round 2014 dra
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RESULTS: Claude Giroux becomes the second player to move into the Final Four of the Flyers Highlight of the Year Tournament.
An overwhelming majority of voters chose Giroux’s no-look, backhand top shelf winner against the Blue Jackets, coming i…
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QUICK START IMPORTANT FOR VORACEK
Flyers right winger Jakub Voracek is unquestionably one of the most skilled players on the team. He has averaged 0.83 points per game over the last two seasons and has compiled 52 goals, 71 assists and 123 points over his last 145 regular season games (0.85 points per game) dating back to the stretch drive of the 2011-12 season.
Off the ice, the 25-year-old
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FLYERS PILGRIMAGES: REXY’S RESTAURANT AND BAR, MT. EPHRAIM, NJ
No discussion of the Broad Street Bully era Flyers is complete without mentioning their favorite postgame and off-night hangout, Rexy’s Restaurant and Bar in Mt. Ephraim. From the time of the team’s creation in 1967 until the 1980s, but especially in the mid-1970s, virtually the entire team hung out together at Rexy’s whenever they
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IS SCHENN HEADED FOR A BREAKOUT SEASON?
Flyers forward Brayden Schenn celebrates his 23rd birthday today. With a new two-season bridge deal contract in hand, Schenn is about to enter his fourth season in the NHL. It is not an exaggeration to say that the 2014-15 season will be a critical one in his development.
Schenn has made progress over the course of his three NHL seasons to date. It ha
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INJURIES DERAILED RENBERG’S PATH TO STARDOM
In November, two-thirds of the Legion of Doom line will be inducted into the Philadelphia Flyers Hall of Fame as Eric Lindros and John LeClair take their place among the top players in franchise history. The third original member of the line, Mikael Renberg, will probably never earn the honor.
Renberg’s NHL career accomplishments — after a brillia
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STREIT NEEDS TO EXCEL IN SECOND SEASON
If the Philadelphia Flyers are to make the playoffs again in 2014-15, veteran defenseman Mark Streit will need to stay healthy and have a highly productive season. With Kimmo Timonen likely unavailable for much or all of the season, the 36-year-old Streit will assume much of Timonen’s on-ice and off-ice leadership mantle.
The off-ice part should not di
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